Sun Microsystems’ Java 2 Platform Standard Edition 1.5 (or J2SE 1.5) has now been released for beta testing. Code named Project Tiger, it includes new Java programming language updates focusing on ease-of-development, new application monitoring and management features, rich client support for the PC desktop and greater performance.
J2SE powers the Java Enterprise System, the Java Studio Enterprise tools and the Java Desktop System offerings. The language updates in the new version support faster and more secure coding. New features include generics, enumerated types, metadata and autoboxing of primitive types. Performance improvements include reduced startup time, a smaller memory footprint and Java Virtual Machine (JVM) auto-tuning.
Manageability improvements include the ability to allow Java applications created on the J2SE 1.5 platform to be deployed into existing SNMP-based enterprise management systems. This allows the JVM software to be monitored and managed for higher levels of reliability, availability and serviceability. Also new in J2SE 1.5 platform are Java Management Extensions (JMX) that simplify the deployment of applications to enterprise management systems that support JMX.
J2SE 1.5 also includes continued support for integrated development environments (IDEs) such as the Open Source NetBeans environment. NetBeans release 3.6 is compatible with the J2SE 1.5 release, and NetBeans release 4.0 is expected to be fully optimised to take advantage of J2SE 1.5 platform features.
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29/03/04
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